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I've been looking into it for a couple weeks and am about to do some "hello world" apps this week. There's some interesting stuff in the Kepler project but the
by compay 18y ago
I've been looking into it for a couple weeks and am about to do some "hello world" apps this week. There's some interesting stuff in the Kepler project but the available libraries are definitely pretty low compared to a lot of other languages.
- jrockway 18y agoThe good news is that at least Lua has the core language features you need to implement good libraries and extensions. It also has very nice syntax for a non-Lisp. If Lua became the new "standard" for web development, I wouldn't complain at all. I probably wouldn't use it, but if I had to, it wouldn't be bad :) (I was recently forced to do some PHP and Java projects. Wow. Never again.)
- danw 18y agoLua seems like a cross between javascript and python in terms of style. Has anyone built a server side javascript app? Or have access to Rhino on Rails?
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoSimilar in terms of style, maybe, but conceptually Lua is extremely close to Scheme. It's an extremely intentional resemblance. The language core is very clean, concise, and consistent.